Breast segmentation in infrared images

Breast cancer detection with infrared imaging is a technique that is hazardous radiation free, increases the early detection chance and has a high detection probability. Asymmetry analysis is used for the diagnosis and the analysis is done using the breast segments obtained from the infrared image. In this work, a breast segmentation system based on parabolic Hough transform is presented. Besides, a filtering method using connected components is proposed to increase both the computation speed and the segmentation performance.